Posts Tagged ‘Greenland’
WDC exposes heavy promotion of whale meat to tourists in Greenland
Investigations in Greenland by Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) have revealed whale meat meant for local Greenlandic people is openly on sale to tourists. The discovery comes as the 65th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) – the body that regulates whaling – begins in Portoroz, Slovenia. This is a damning revelation coming, as it…
Read MoreWho really benefits from the EU Commission’s drive to deliver Greenland a quota?
With apologies to Abba Eban, one used to be able to say that ‘the EU could always be counted on to do the right thing…but only after they have exhausted all other possibilities’. And, whilst that particular line is a cliché applied to many nations and institutions, it’s normally true in my experience in respect…
Read MoreDenmark plays a dangerous game at the IWC
I remember as a child learning never to threaten to do something without the will to see it through. So what is Denmark playing at in threatening to leave the IWC if it does not get a compromise for Greenland on its demands for an increasied quota? In a report from Flensborg Avis online, Denmark’s Foreign…
Read MoreArctic in trouble
Two news stories caught my eye over the last couple of days. The BBC is reporting that the Arctic Ocean is ‘acidifying rapidly’, and that mercury exposure has been linked to a dramatic decline in Arctic foxes The BBC reports that scientists from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) monitored widespread changes in ocean…
Read MoreGreenland and the evolving concept of ‘Local Community’ in relation to its demands for increased large whale quotas
Since the IWC meeting, I have been asked by some observers why do I think that the Greenlandic and Danish delegations actively threw away their chances of getting a quota this year? These same officials knew that the European Uion (EU), after the revelations of tourists eating bowhead whale meat and an internal EU coordination…
Read MoreDenmark talks of killing whales with 'baseball bats'
The most scary comments must come from the Danish delegation in their defence of the practice of feeding tourists with whales meant for aboriginal people. As reported by Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Denmark’s envoy Ole Samsing said that Greenland had a longstanding “non-racial” policy of not prohibiting ethnic groups from eating whale. He also rejected charges…
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